Mom Tri's Boathouse

Mom Tri's Boathouse, luxurious boutique hotel directly on Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand


	Luxurious boutique hotel directly on Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand

Part 1: Open to All
Part 2: Open to Age Group 15 – 18 years

The Boathouse announces the second Mom Tri’s Boathouse Short Fiction Contest and invites aspiring writers to pen up to 1,500 words of original prose.

Last year saw the first annual Boathouse writing competition which generated a large and enthusiastic response. The competition was judged by Jake Needham, Asia’s most stylish and atmospheric writer of such bestsellers as ‘The Big Mango’, ‘Laundry Man’ and ‘Killing Plato’ –a Jack Shepherd crime fiction story set in Phuket and starting in the Boathouse’s own Galley Bar.

The Greater Phuket Magazine sponsored the competition and placed no less than three pieces of the best writing in its pages during 2007.

The second competition will be in two parts.

Firstly the adult competition open to all, requiring stories of 1,000 up to 1,500 words, containing the three key words: the Boathouse, Phuket and (the big) Mango. Deadline for Part 1 entries will be 29 February and winners will be announced 12 March 2008. Details and conditions below.

Secondly a competition open to young school age writers 15 to 18 years. To get the students going, the beginning of a short Jack Shepherd story is posted here. Students are asked to finish the story using between 800 and 1,200 words.

To further and help generate ideas, Jake will conduct a workshop at Phuket’s International Schools on 11 - 12 March (details to be announced) and excerpts from Jack Shepherd books are available on www.JakeNeedham.com at the Podbooks section as audio files to listen to. Part 2 of the contest closes 10 April 2008. Three outstanding entries will be chosen and announced by the end of April 2008.

Winners will be able to experience the famous Mom Tri experience first-hand; they will receive a voucher for a complimentary stay - with a dinner for two and a bottle of wine – at Mom Tri’s Boathouse and a spa treatment for two at Mom Tri’s Villa Royale.

Winners will also receive an autographed Jake Needham novel and the winning entries of Part 1 and Part 2 will be published in the Greater Phuket Magazine and posted on this website.